Rachel Herrmann

Rachel B. Herrmann is a Lecturer in Early Modern American History at the University of Southampton. She is revising her first book, No Useless Mouth: Hunger and the Revolutionary Atlantic, which is under contract with Cornell University Press.

In August 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared that the word “hangry” had entered our common vocabulary. Surely most people living in the twenty-first century have experienced the sense of being simultaneously hungry and angry. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, hunger was also everywhere. A recent NPR essay examines how slaveholders withheld food from enslaved people,… Read more →